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ABSTRACT STYLE
Beginning in the early 20th century, abstract art became a leading style of modernism. Rather than portray the world in a way that represented reality, as had been the dominating style of Western art in the previous centuries, abstract paintings, prints and sculptures are marked by a shift to geometric forms, gestural shapes and experimentation with color to express ideas, subject matter and scenes.
Although abstract art flourished in the early 1900s, propelled by movements like Fauvism and Cubism, it was rooted in the 19th century. In the 1840s, J.M.W. Turner emphasized light and motion for atmospheric paintings in which concrete details were blurred, and Paul Cézanne challenged traditional expectations of perspective in the 1890s.
Some of the earliest abstract artists — Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint — expanded on these breakthroughs while using vivid colors and forms to channel spiritual concepts. Painter Piet Mondrian, a Dutch pioneer of the art movement, explored geometric abstraction partly owing to his belief in Theosophy, which is grounded in a search for higher spiritual truths and embraces philosophers of the Renaissance period and medieval mystics. Black Square, a daringly simple 1913 work by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, was a watershed statement on creating art that was free “from the dead weight of the real world,” as he later wrote.
Surrealism in the 1920s, led by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Meret Oppenheim and others, saw painters creating abstract pieces in order to connect to the subconscious. When Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York during the mid-20th century, it similarly centered on the process of creation, in which Helen Frankenthaler’s expressive “soak-stain” technique, Jackson Pollock’s drips of paint, and Mark Rothko’s planes of color were a radical new type of abstraction.
Conceptual art, Pop art, Hard-Edge painting and many other movements offered fresh approaches to abstraction that continued into the 21st century, with major contemporary artists now exploring it, including Anish Kapoor, Mark Bradford, El Anatsui and Julie Mehretu.
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Style: Abstract
Abstract Picture (Limited edition print; authorized promotional reproduction)
Located in New York, NY
Gerhard Richter
Untitled Abstract Picture, 2002
Offset lithograph on GardaMatt Art 250 GSM paper
Not signed, edition of 3433
12 1/2 × 16 3.5 inches
Unframed
Printed on GardaMatt Art 250 GSM paper, this beautiful and colorful piece was part of a portfolio of loose plate reproductions for Gerhard Richter's Abstraktes works. Released during his exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Art (Abstract Pictures) and the Museum of Modern Art (Gerhard Richter, 40 Years of Painting). It depicts Richters 1999 Oil on Aluminum abstract picture)
More about Gerhard Richter:
Gerhard Richter was born in 1932 in Dresden, Germany. Throughout his career, Richter has negotiated the frontier between photography and painting, captivated by the way in which these two seemingly opposing practices speak to and challenge one another. From exuberant canvases rendered with a squeegee and acerbic color charts to paintings of photographic detail and close-ups of a single brushstroke, Richter moves effortlessly between the two mediums, reveling in the complexity of their relationship, while never asserting one above the other.
Richter’s life traces the defining moments of twentieth-century history and his work reverberates with the trauma of National Socialism and the Holocaust. In the wake of the Second World War, Richter trained in a Socialist Realist style sanctioned by East Germany’s Communist government. When he defected to West Germany in 1961, a month before the Berlin Wall was erected, Richter left his entire artistic oeuvre up to that point behind. From 1961 to 1964—alongside Blinky Palermo and Sigmar Polke—Richter studied at the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he began to explore the material, conceptual, and historical implications of painting without ideological restraint.
Richter’s earliest paintings in Düsseldorf, stimulated by a fascination with current affairs and popular culture, responded to images from magazines and newspaper cuttings. Through the 1960s, Richter continued to address found and media images of subjects such as military jets, portraits, and aerial photographs. Notably, he reimagined family pictures he had smuggled from East Germany that included his smiling uncle Rudi, dressed in a Nazi uniform...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract More Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
El Dorado 2 , 120x100cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
El Dorado 2 , 120x100cm
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Selfie, 100x110cm, oil on canvas
Located in Yerevan, AM
Selfie, 100x110cm
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Oil
Monograph: To Be Someone (Hand signed and inscribed "Love from Mary Heilmann")
Located in New York, NY
Mary Heilmann
To Be Someone (hand signed and inscribed "Love from Mary Heilmann"), 2007
Hardback monograph with dust jacket (hand signed and inscribed by Mary Heilmann)
Warmly signed...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract More Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset
Vanitas , 80x80cm, print on canvas
Located in Yerevan, AM
vanitas , 80x80cm, print on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Canvas, Color
Wall Hanging - Wool - by Glen Kaufman
By Glen Kaufman
Located in Wilton, CT
braided/knotted exposed warp edges at one end, hemmed edges on the other
Category
1960s Abstract More Art
Materials
Wool
Calm And Cool - 8"x8", Green, Blue, Abstract Painting, Modern, Minimal Landscape
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
Minimal art has a lot to say. In this abstract painting on canvas, emphasis is placed on simplified composition. Linear, textured detail creates subtle dimension within a harmonious ...
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Berliner Luft, 100x100cm
By Yulia Ani
Located in Yerevan, AM
Berliner Luft, 2021, 100x100 cm
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Acrylic
What mask are you wearing? 80x80cm, print on canvas
Located in Yerevan, AM
What mask are you wearing? 80x80cm, print on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Canvas, Color
Vanitas , 80x80cm, print on canvas
Located in Yerevan, AM
vanitas , 80x80cm, print on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Canvas, Color
Vintage French Artists Wooden Palette Very Thick Oil Paint - from Provence
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Artists Art Palette
French School
oil painting on board, framed
board: 14 x 9.5inches
provenance: private collection, the Luberon, Provence
condition: ...
Category
20th Century Abstract More Art
Materials
Oil
"Nocturne", 100x90cm, oil on canvas
Located in Yerevan, AM
"Nocturne", 100x90cm
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Oil
Sunflowers, 90x60cm
By Yulia Ani
Located in Yerevan, AM
Sunflowers, 2021, 90x60 cm
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Acrylic
Thaw, 75x75cm, oil on canvas
Located in Yerevan, AM
Thaw, 75x75cm
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Oil
Elephant in the Room, Fillipus Sheehama, Mixed media: makalani nut piths, metal
Located in Windhoek, NA
Elephant in the Room, 2020. Mixed Media: Makalani nut piths and wire
Fillipus Sheehama's latest large-scale sculptural textiles have grown out of...
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Wire
Nostalgia, 60x50cm
By Yulia Ani
Located in Yerevan, AM
Nostalgia, 2021, 60x50 cm
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Acrylic
"Dance with Drums", 97x78cm, oil on canvas
Located in Yerevan, AM
"Dance with Drums", 97x78cm
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Oil
Wanderers, 80x100cm, oil on canvas
Located in Yerevan, AM
Wanderers, 80x100cm
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Oil
Leaf fall, 65x65 cm, oil on canvas
Located in Yerevan, AM
leaf fall, 65.5 x 65.5 cm
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Oil
Intenciones del Silencio III. Mixed media on canvas
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Intenciones del Silencio III, 2019 by Angélica Chavarro Franco
From the series Intenciones del Silencio
Mixed media (Oil paint and textile) on canvas
Frame size: 14.9 H in x 16.9 W...
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Textile, Canvas, Paper, Mixed Media, Oil
labyrinths, 143x110cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
labyrinths, 143x110cm
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Abstraction , 110x100cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
« Abstraction» , 110x100cm
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Acrylic
Swan Lake , 80x80cm, print on canvas
Located in Yerevan, AM
Swan Lake , 80x80cm, print on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Canvas, Color
Pink bunnies have taken over the city, 80x80cm, print on canvas
Located in Yerevan, AM
Pink bunnies have taken over the city, 80x80cm, print on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Canvas, Color
Intenciones del Silencio IV. Mixed media on canvas
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Intenciones del Silencio IV, 2019 by Angélica Chavarro Franco
From the series Intenciones del Silencio
Mixed media (Oil paint and textile) on canvas
Frame size: 14.9 H in x 16.9 W ...
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Textile, Canvas, Paper, Mixed Media, Oil
Forgotten toy , 150x150 cm
By Max Orlitsky
Located in Yerevan, AM
forgotten toy, 150x150 cm
Max Orlitsky explores the human response to and adaptation to all sorts of change, focusing on the tipping point when mental transformation becomes physical...
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Oil
Swan Lake , 80x80cm, print on canvas
Located in Yerevan, AM
Swan Lake , 80x80cm, print on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Canvas, Color
Fruition, Abstract Oil Painting
By Shyun Song
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"Amid the autumn season, I revisit the natural stages from sprouting to maturing and the long waiting in between," says artist Shyun Song. The yellow-green, str...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract More Art
Materials
Oil
Online-people, 2021, 42x30 cm
By Tatiana Nega
Located in Yerevan, AM
Online-people , 2021, 42x30 cm
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Intenciones del Silencio V. Mixed media on canvas
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Intenciones del Silencio V, 2019 by Angélica Chavarro Franco
From the series Intenciones del Silencio
Mixed media (Oil paint and textile) on canvas
Frame size: 14.9 H in x 16.9 W i...
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Textile, Canvas, Paper, Mixed Media, Oil
The Floating
Located in Milford, NH
A modern abstract mixed media cityscape painting by contemporary Maine artist Troy M. Stafford (21st c). Troy Stafford is an artist that has lived on both the East and West Coasts and he currently resides in Brunswick, ME. Troy is a multifaceted artist that paints and creates using mixed media. He builds and creates extraordinary picture frames and is a furniture designer and maker. His work is in many private collections as well as in the permanent collections of The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, The New Britain Museum of American Art, Portland Museum of Art, North Carolina Museum of Art, and The Columbia Museum of Art among others.
Artist Statement:
“I have always been drawn to making things, the idea to make something where nothing had previously been felt right to me at an early age. Growing up in the desert I loved going to the dump...
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Walnut, Paper, Found Objects, Oil, Photographic Paper
Habitat, 100x100cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
Habitat, 2023, 100x100 cm
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Acrylic
Dualidad I, Contemporary Art, Abstract Art, 21st Century
Located in Mexico City, MX
Dualidad I
Beads on Wood Panel
More than 10,000 beads
Ready to hang
25 x 20 cm
2023
About the artist
Colectivo Aurora is the new project of a plastic artist and a designer whose w...
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media
Abstract Expressionist Collage in Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Expressionist Collage in Acrylic on Paper
Bright, saturated abstract painting with collage by California-based artist Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20th C). Bold red,...
Category
1980s Abstract More Art
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
Dualidad II, Contemporary Art, Abstract Art, 21st Century
Located in Mexico City, MX
Dualidad II
Beads on Wood Panel
More than 10,000 beads
Ready to hang
25 x 20 cm
2023
About the artist
Colectivo Aurora is the new project of a plastic artist and a designer whose ...
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media
Florence Arnold Color Screen print, Signed and Dated
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Florence Arnold (American 1900-1994) hard-edge abstract color square screen print (c.1977) pencil signed 19/25, 18in x18in.
Florence Arnold began painting seriously in 1947. By the ...
Category
1970s Abstract More Art
Materials
Screen
Mirage 130x100cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
130x100cm
The main theme of my work is introspection of human nature and patterns, female archetypes and physicality, experiments in filling and searching for new configurations d...
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Swan Lake , 80x80cm, print on canvas
Located in Yerevan, AM
Swan Lake , 80x80cm, print on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Canvas, Color
Intenciones del Silencio II. Mixed media on canvas
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Intenciones del Silencio II, 2019 by Angélica Chavarro Franco
From the series Intenciones del Silencio
Mixed media (Oil paint and textile) on canvas
Frame size: 18.8 H in x 35.8 W ...
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Textile, Canvas, Paper, Mixed Media, Oil
Sam Gilliam Handmade Paper "Untitled #34" Acrylic. Signed & Dated
By Sam Gilliam
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY
“Untitled #34” was created by Sam Gilliam, one of the great innovators in postwar American painting. It is dated and signed on the lower front. The thick handmade paper is rich with folds and texture and the colors lively. In addition to Acrylic paint on the surface there appears to be imbedded color in the handmade paper which has additional embossed accents. Unframed the piece measures 16 x 14. Provenance of Yaw Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan is on the verso along with the note that the Paper Surfaces in contact with this artwork are acid free.
In the mid-1960s he emerged from the Washington D.C. scene with works that elaborated upon and disrupted the ethos of Color School painting. A series of formal breakthroughs would soon result in his canonical Drape paintings, which expanded upon the tenets of Abstract Expressionism in entirely new ways. One profound manner was the sculpture aspect of the painting giving it a free flowing expression of pure color.
In the latter half of the 1950s, Washington D.C. saw a flourishing of abstract art that emphasized the form-making capabilities of pure color. Known as The Washington Color School, the loosely affiliated group of abstract painters knew each other through various teaching experiences. The moniker has an uncertain origin but likely originated with the title of a 1965 exhibition at the Washington Gallery of Modern Art, "Washington Color Painters," curated by Gerald Nordland. The show exhibited the works of Kenneth Noland, Paul Reed, Morris Louis, Howard Mehring, Thomas Downing, and Gene Davis. Additionally, Leon Berkowitz...
Category
1970s Abstract More Art
Materials
Acrylic, Handmade Paper
Diptych. Find me, 140 x200cm
By Tatiana Nega
Located in Yerevan, AM
Diptych. Find me, 2021, 140x200 cm
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Acrylic
Blue Striped Abstract Expressionist Composition in Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Blue Striped Abstract Expressionist Composition in Acrylic on Paper
Bright, saturated abstract painting by California-based artist Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20th C). This p...
Category
1980s Abstract More Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Life with a cat, 78x54cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
Life with a cat, 2023, 78x54 cm
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Acrylic
Quiet Storm - Vivid Abstract Expressionism Colorful Painting on Canvas
By Dez Gaskin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Desireé Gaskin (Dez) is a self-taught artist living and working in Dallas, Texas. Her artistic style is a form of abstract expressionism ruled by her creative imagination and love fo...
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Last Trace-2
Located in New York, NY
2019, Mixed color on sewing jute
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Jute
Last Trace-1
Located in New York, NY
2019, Mixed color on sewing jute
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Jute
Shells, 40x40cm
By Tatiana Nega
Located in Yerevan, AM
Shells, 2022, 40x40 cm
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Acrylic
Nature Song-4
Located in New York, NY
2021, Mixed color on sewing jute
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Jute
Nature Song-3
Located in New York, NY
2020, Mixed color on sewing jute
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Jute
Connected by one network, 90x150cm
By Tatiana Nega
Located in Yerevan, AM
Connected by one network, 2020, 90x150 cm
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Ascent, Abstract Oil Painting
By Shyun Song
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Shyun Song employs linear geometric forms and a monochromatic color palette to create a bold statement. "In this painting, I captured the blissful sensat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract More Art
Materials
Oil
Florence Arnold Colored Screen Print, Signed and Dated
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Florence Arnold (American 1900-1994) hard-edge abstract color square screen print (c.1977) pencil signed 20/25, 16"x16".
Florence Arnold began painting seriously in 1947. By the la...
Category
1970s Abstract More Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Screen
Catch a deer, 78x54cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
Catch a deer, 2023, 78x54 cm
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Acrylic
Hares, 78x54cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
Hares, 2023, 78x54 cm
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Acrylic
Life with a cat, 78x54cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
Life with a cat, 2023, 78x54 cm
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Acrylic
In crowd, 78x54cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
In crowd, 2023, 78x54 cm
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Acrylic
Talking until midnight, 78x54cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
Talking until midnight, 2023, 78x54 cm
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Acrylic
Chicken, 78x54cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
Chicken, 2023, 78x54 cm
Category
2010s Abstract More Art
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Acrylic
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